Pakistan is world leader in visa fraud business: British High Commissioner

noooo, really?

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Absolute shame. Now it makes me more determined to throw this status-quo and corrupt government. For God sake, OPEN YOUR EYES and make Imran your next PM.

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@PTI till death:
Please spare us..!!

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British officials are involved in visa scam cases.they take high bribes for that.i have heard from many people who bribed WHITE BRITISH officials,working in British Immigration department. and got fake visas.Recommend

Only 4000 fake documents in one whole year. May be High Commission should check the documents more closely.

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Another achievement. Interior Minister no statement please on this issue, people will not take serious as your own countries are involved.

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Zero training on diplomacy

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Yes !you may be correct : Fraud and forgery is a “national” industry of WESTERN DEMOCRACIES and are managed & run the government itself but OUT BY HERE its a solo affair. Off-hand i recall that France simply forgot to return 3 billion $ they owed Pakistan when a deal was scuttled by US pressure.

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count on British to act honest and brave.

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V Sharma, mr righty rightist, Hedgefunder: Take a break for meanwhile and enlighten yourself with this one also:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/59-of-indian-students-to-britain-fake-report_789661.html

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Unfortunate but True to some extent. I have seen frauds with my own eyes so i have to agree. But it is unfair to say we are world leaders as ambassador then did not travelled to Columbia or Mexico who are our BAAP in Fraud.

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This is honest to God true story in the month of Ramazan. I had an older family friend who has worked in the US embassy in Islamabad for almost 40 years. He retired in late 1980′s from his service. I had long talk with him many times and cannot forget one day I asked him “what do Americans think of Pakistanis?” Without any hesitation he said “they think we are all crooks”. The kind of false documentation, including bank statements and the expensive attire they have during visa interviews is an open secret. Like water in milk, fake medicines, adulterated food, this is going on for generations and nothing new. No single person no matter who he/she is cannot change it. We all have to change ourselves but we have excuses for each of our wrong actions.Recommend

@Zaikam,
There is a big difference between individuals , who are not students, claiming to be students and a state providing fraudulent identity papers. One is fraud at the individual level and the other is fraud , enabled by the state.

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how can he say”Pakistan is a world leader”. has he been to all over world? has he worked as a high commissioner to all countries on earth? has he done deep research about visa scams in all countries on earth? if not than how can he compare Pakistan with world? he just expressed his hatred against Pakistan which British officials do very often.they dont miss a chance to blame and shame Pakistan.

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techsupport: Did it hurt?

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@PTI till death: BUT WE DO NOT KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE THE NAME OF DEMOCRECY .

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Another feather in Pakistan`s rich cap!!! Congratulations. Must be zionist and Hindu agenda!!!

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@gp65
The data is provided by an anti immigration group because thee UK government can never ever have enough courage to admit the mess they have made. Bogus colleges ARE frauds. I am sure you understand that these students did not go to Cambridge and Oxford and UCL. They go to fake colleges which are registered by the UK government by the way, and do jobs instead of studying. And while they are there, the try and find all means to extend their stay at any cost. I think all of this DOES amount to frauds. You got your definition of fraud all wrong mate.

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MOSSAD+RAW+CIA+MI-6 Conspiracy against innocent, god fearing and honest Pakistanis!

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@Angel
Stop this self pity and come out of your sand hole. We are not a developed nation yet. But what you have, does not look like self-deprecating humor to me.

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Well, look at the brighter side, you are a world leader in something ! A proud moment, I must say !

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UK houses all the high ranking criminals in the world under a term called political asylum! That’s the biggest industry in which UK has monopoly!

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cool. let mr. rahman reply. the first statement the re employed interior minister

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@sam: “how can he say”Pakistan is a world leader”. has he been to all over world? has he worked as a high commissioner to all countries on earth?”

HE is probably going by the perecentage of British visa applications from citizens of different countries that are detected as fraud. If the number is highest for Pakistan then he would have a basis for his statement without really working in high commissions all over the world.

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@Kanwal: “Bogus colleges ARE frauds. I am sure you understand that these students did not go to Cambridge and Oxford and UCL. They go to fake colleges which are registered by the UK government by the way, and do jobs instead of studying. And while they are there, the try and find all means to extend their stay at any cost”.

If these students are enrolled in colleges registered by British authorities, that is a loophole the British need to close i.e. close the bogus colleges. If these people are using a currently legal way to go tp Britain, they cannot be called fraud – though I would agree it is gaming the system.

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Ouch, that hurts especially when it is coming from a person who is not supposed to cross the line of diplomatic decorum! We definitely need some introspection. With state institutions (judiciary, provincial governments, the Army and ISI) breaking apart and declaring themselves sovereign and the others (like the mullahs brigade, political parties) also following the example, it is only natural to get into this predicament. And that is the reason why our compatriots abroad feel little embarrassed when someone asks our country of origin.

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@anwar: Didn’t know Pakistan was so rich to be just forgetting billions that others owed to it. By the way Pakistan owes a few thousand crores to India as well. When is that going to be returned?

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@All, It’s an international conspiracy to defame the innocent people of Pakistan. Their own country Pakistan is a heaven on the earth, thus why would they forge passports to flee to other countries? For Pakistan has no electricity shortages, no terrorism, no extremism, no Taliban, no Al-Qaeda and even Osama was not found in Pakistan. Their government provides world class education to its people. People in Pakistan are free to go to their temples, mosques and churches. A Hindu has ceased to be a Hindu and a Christian has ceased to be a Christian in Pakistan. They treat people of Ahmediya and Shia community just like their own brothers. Please don’t blame the innocent Pakistanis, for they are the most civilized and secular people in the world. Forget about visa fraud, they can do no wrong. Their religion teaches them to commit no wrong against fellow citizens and be pure. Every citizen of Pakistan is Pak i.e. pure. The fact is the whole world is jealous of Pakistanis and their success. They are astonished as to how a small country like Pakistan can achieve such a great success in such a short period of time. Just look at the progress Pakistan has made in last 65 years. It’s simply unbelievable. While the rest of the world is busy in sending astronauts to the Moon and the Mars, Pakistan has been sending it’s people straight to heaven for the last 65 years. No other people have been able to achieve such a feat so far. They don’t export terrorism to their neighboring countries. Actually it’s a RAW/CIA/MOSSAD/KGB conspiracy to fail the state of Pakistan. Welcome to the land of pure i.e. Pakistan.

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Congrats Pakistan ! You beat the world in all this. Enjoy your time in this glory1 always!
-from your not so envious neighbours

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@sam:
Have you been all over FATA to say that drones are killing innocent people?

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@Ash:
So you cannot take true criticisms. Sad, very sad.

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@Ash: “Can never understand why ET – A “Pakistani newspaper” will publish all these negative indian comments!”
Since along with being A “Pakistani newspaper”, they have grey matter as well and a sense of what is good for Pakistan. Unless you mean to suggest that being a Pakistani and having grey matter are two mutually exclusive things.

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Looks like his strings have been pulled otherwise he was telling a different story a day earlier. Terming Pakistan world leader in fraud business based on the fact that just 4,000 documents were found fake out of millions submitted last year is a gross exaggeration keeping in mind that mostly such documents are submitted by the poor people desperately in need of job opportunities abroad. Perhaps he didn’t know the statistics of India and Nigeria otherwise he might not have said what he said. Or, he is just trying to save his government from embarrassment as one of her citizens and a business entity have committed a proven serious crime and violated several laws of the land just to malign and give bad publicity to the state of Pakistan. It also seems to be a move to save a prominent UK newspaper from punitive and financial damages as the crime committed by the reporter with the consent of his newspaper’s management needs little proof to convict them in the courts of law. The GOP must file a case against the reporter and the newspaper in UK and pursue it with full vigor in order to stop such malicious actions of the British tabloids in the future. It is a matter of a state’s honor as she was maligned and incriminated by a foreign private entity purely for her sinister gains at the expense of the 200 million citizens of the state.

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People con people but our controls are effective so how are we world leader in Visa fraud? The only difference is that we have enough regulations to detect forged documents.

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Would the dear High Commissioner also comment on his government’s role in gifting us this NRO government? It is partly because of their meddling that we are in such a mess…

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Seriously Express Tribune?

Why you failed to publish that M. Ali Asad’s UK passport which he claims to be fraudently made in Pakistan and was able to use this passport to sneak into UK to show the world that Pakistan issues fake passports, was actually issed by British Government in UK according to NADRA. and that NADRA is filing a law suit against The Sun?

Shameless reporting full of lies!

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We should ask him if a trophy and certificate come with that title.

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@Babloo:
You must be kidding. 59 percent of the Indian students entering Britain in 2011 with forged documents, and you call that individual:). Get a life man. Everywhere individuals within the state instituions are involved in such forgeries. How can you distinguish it from Pakistan’s case. Recommend

@kaka:
yes u r right.journalists only copy those elements of news which can bring bad name for pakistan.it improves their rating.

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Fraud is everywhere.. it is a matter of price. Sadly, it is cheap in Pakistan.
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I have heard strong ANECDOTAL evidence from various sources that a fake British passport can be bought for £5000 and one can travel etc onit and a genuine one can be bought for 10,000 pounds and that one receives in person from Home Office!

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Pakistan should devolep its own higher education institution

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Pakistan is World leader in Fraud. End of discussion.

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We know that we have been facing several severe social, economic and other issue for years. However, we also know that corruption flows from top to bottom not the vice versa. Western democracies, for their own malicious interests, promoted all worst kinds of corruption in Pakistan. For instance, they backed all military coup d’etat in Pakistan and helped military dictators suppress democratic forces, human rights, and turn Pakistan into a security state. Furthermore, in Britain, a large number of fake colleges and institutes have been operating for years. It is indeed an industry in Britain. They exploit numerous students from different parts of the world every year, but still face no accountability from British government. Moreover, Britain is well known for hosting a large number of financial fraudulent and scams via Internet every year. Still, the British mindset blames other nations for fraudulent acts. It is such a shame.

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This arrogant excuse for a high comm. should be thrown out of the country. Pelleted with tomatoes on the way out.

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we need Zardari 2 stay in the office for another term to shape our image properly..Long live Zardari…

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@elementary

A large fraction of Pakistanis in US are from the educated elites. They have a better reputation. After 911 most of the illegals or were uneducated left the US.

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@Mirza: despite that most of the time they a deal with every case honestly.
I was refused US visa and I appealed, I was called for interview back and incidentally I got same lady for interview. she asked me that why I was refused and told her I don’t know. she looked at papers and said she did not write the reason for refusal. she said since she has already rejected me so she will not give me visa. but this was unfair so she decided that some one else should interview . Second person approved visa .

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@Zaikam: Why do Pakistanis bring India in their comments. They should look at the comments made about Pakistan and see how things could be made better. India will also have to do its best to stop visa frauds.

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@Pakistani Hindu:

well then enjoy the embarrassment, oh and if its not enough, vote nawaz sharif. He might bring you new and unheard type of embarrassment, you ll be having a great time.

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@sam:
That’s correct. This is the reason so many criminals from Pakistan and the world over are able to live in the UK while perfectly legitimate people have their applications refused for some extremely stupid reason. A friend’s 70 year old mother was refused a British visa because she did not attach a proof that she had been married (as she ticked it on the form).

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WoW ! One more feather in Pakistan’s Kufi. keep it up !!

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Please tell us something which we don’t know about ourselves. Thanks for this glorification.

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And the first Gold medal even before the Olympics begins – goes to Pakistan – well done.

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First Pakistan accused of corruption and got 8th or 9th place in the world’s most corrupt countries and now visa fraud business.Very surprisingly Pakistan is being accused of corruption and visa fraud business…..Surprisingly,amazingly and interestingly all these medals Pakistan got mostly in PPP’s regime……….

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I have made follwing analysis of actually what happned:

Identity 1 (Genuine) : Born 1980 in Sahiwal. Name Ali. Now UK national.
Identity 2 (Fake): Born 1970. Name Mohammad Ali. Lahore

ID1 goes to NADRA, and gets ID card in the name of ID2. Then gets machine readable passport. This act is illegal, as he got a fake ID of another person.

NADRA says that they issued ID card and subsequent passport to ID2. In fact, they issued a card to ID1 imposter posing as ID2. (They are also trying to imply that real ID of ID1 is ID2??, so they have not done anything wrong)

So, SUN is correct in saying that a fake passport has been isuued.
It is unbeliveable that NADRA officials can mislead, and even the federal cabinet issues a statement without making proper enquiries.
Perhaps this incompetence is reflection of where we as a nation are now.

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@Axit : Please dont try to put the crown on our head. This award has already been announced by our colonial masters ! We Indians only want to smirk, smile and applaud. Congrats Paki brothers! The honor is yours and yours only

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@Zaikam: Here he has named a country with a blame..just use some intellect and face the truth

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Yet UK support these politicians with amnesty, aid, citizenship and seats.

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@Nabeel: Pakistan is in such a state of denial, that statement of facts appears to the people of Pakistan as nonsensical tripe and cheap point scoring. It’s another matter that the world is now beginning to think of anything emanating from Pakistan in pretty much the same vein.
To answer you, Rs 300 crore is the “amount due from Pakistan on account of share of pre-partition debt.”. This does not include any interest. You would be able to calculate that wouldn’t you? Please take a look at the Indian budget (which) is freely available on the net). I am sure such has been your indoctrination, that this will once again be denied. Happy denial – is all I can say.

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@Mirza:
” Like water in milk, fake medicines, adulterated food, this is going on for generations and nothing new.”

Those are actually trademarks of your higher than deeper than friend China.

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